How may I contribute?

Bear Essential Life will be reader written!We’d like to print your story!What makes BE Life different from other magazines? It will be written by readers...regular people just like you who want to simply share with the rest of North America a glimpse into the way of life they know and love.

Special Bonus for Published Submissions: As our way of saying thanks, if your submission is published, we’ll give you a free issue and extra copies of that Bear Essential Life Magazine. Regular submissions, make you part of the BE Life Team and you will receive a free subscription. Already a subscriber? No problem, you can simply have this offer added at the end of your current subscription or nominate someone else to receive it instead...

So Send us YOUR Letters, Articles and Photos! Just follow these easy steps:

Send us your name and phone number! Print your name, address and phone number on the first page of your story and on each photo.

Keep it short (however longer submissions may be considered for mini-series; continued issue to issue) For short submissions. Don’t write more than 600 words; we may still need to edit or condense your letter so that we can include as many as contributors possible

Photos. Photos. Photos. Are always needed! Send high quality colour prints (Be sure to mail copies only; we can’t be responsible for lost photos.) Put your name and information on the back of each one with details –who what when where. For digital shots a good quality 3.0 megapixel camera or better set for highest picture quality works best. Send as jpeg files .Two ways to submit:

Snail mail –remember to Canada can sometimes take 2-3 weeks (and overnight, means in one week!)

Written submissions become our property on publication and may be used in promotions or on the website. In submitting a photo, you grant us permission to reproduce it in Bear Essential Life and in other printed media, in promotions or on the internet.